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Vocabulary Lesson

This is the Vocabulary lesson for the first half of the book. There are a lot of complex words used throughout by the author. What literary term is thwak (pg.2)an example of? _________ What literary term is "Silent horror," (pg. 57) an example of?___________ What literary term is, "poured into his veins like liquid fire," (pg. 5) an example of?_________ Define the following. First write what you think it means by reading the passage it is included in in the book and then write in the dictionary definition: Page 10: retching embodiment ambivalence Page 11: immaculate churning Page 13: quintessential Page 14: painstakingly reval bellowing exhortations vicarious Page 15: moniker methodical Page 16: amid omen Page 19: contemptuously Page 23: congealed Page 24: enshrined Page 27: utopia proprietor Page 32: anatemical unpretentious boondoggle Page 33: meander rancor Page 34: loquacious Page 36: array devout Page 37: tantalizing Page 45: relentlessly grousing Page 55: bantered Page 57: accoutrements Page 68: gazing Page 73: admonished Page 77: jiggering Page 79: ornery perpetually Page 83: tacit Page 91: immutable Page 103: phalanx Page 105: gerrymandering Page 107: apocryphal Page 110: Jaundiced melancholy eloquent Page 111: trajectory skittering Page 118: bludgeon Page 126: sallowness Page 133: evangelical Page 143: astounding Page 144: indoctrinated Page 145: commensurate Page 147: superb Oage 149: conjoled Page 148: badgered

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